The effect of penicillin on Chlamydia trachomatis DNA replication

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2573-2578

  Lambden, Paul R ^a   Pickett, Mark A ^a   Clarke, Ian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL INCLUSION; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOST CELL; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INCLUSION BODIES; KIDNEY; PENICILLINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 33748804678     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29032-0     Document Type: Article

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